Brian McDonald, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (264p) ISBN 978-0-312-35875-4
McDonald received praise for his memoir, My Father's Gun
, about his family of cops, but he seems out of his element with this true-crime account of the murder of Beth Lochtefeld, a successful, outgoing woman who, at 44, was anxious to find a...
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Brian McDonald, Author Best Sellers $24.95 (309p) ISBN 978-0-525-94396-9
Armed with an old, slant-keyed Underwood instead of his fathers .38 Special service revolver, McDonald throws the windows open on the insular society of New York City cops. Rendered with a brooding elegance, this memoir of three generations of...
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Brian McDonald, Author, B. McDonald, Author . Rodale $21.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-57954-587-1
Louis Francis Sockalexis, a full-blooded Maine Penobscot, played but a half-dozen seasons of professional baseball in Cleveland in the late 1890s. His professional statistics are spectacular, but anecdotal on the whole and ultimately too few for...
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Brian McDonald and Les McClaine. First Second, $24.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-62672-732-8
A family man painfully relives past lives in this chilling supernatural thriller set in the contemporary Pacific Northwest. Chris Olsen works at a mall, where he generously buys lunch for a homeless man, Jack, who then claims that he’s Chris’s...
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Brian McDonald. Grand Central, $29 (336p) ISBN 978-1-5387-5320-0
Journalist McDonald (Last Call at Elaine’s) surveys the last century of firefighting in New York City through the lens of one family’s captivating history: the Feehans, who’ve served in the FDNY over multiple generations, starting in the “roaring...
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Brian McDonald and Toby Cypress. First Second, $27.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-62672-731-1
McDonald (Old Souls) distills a seminar’s worth of storytelling lessons from an interdisciplinary cross-section of literature and mythography into an eerie yet life-affirming graphic narrative. Appreciative of the importance of mood-setting, he...
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